Pres. Taft, His sister, Her children and Maj. Butt. (LOC)

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Pres. Taft, His sister, Her children and Maj. Butt.

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
 Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
 Children

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09236

Call Number: LC-B2- 2202-3

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    sonolisto, tcomb124, Miss History, DarkVictory19, and 22 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. jojomelons (59 months ago | reply)

    Major Butt has an interesting history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_Butt

  3. I. M. Bitter (58 months ago | reply)

    I wonder who they cut out of the image, top left?...

  4. Harry Angstrom (56 months ago | reply)

    Taft Family
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_family

    Here is article about their mother:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Taft
    it identifies his only sister as being: Frances Louise "Fanny" Taft (Edwards), (1866-1950). She married San Diego surgeon William A. Edwards . She lived to be 84 and here is her obit:
    select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FB0B1E FC3D59157B93...

    Dr. Edwards' obit is below, unfortunately it says that he left behind just his widow, so these two lovely children pre-deceased their parents.
    select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=FA0A13 F63C5516738D...

  5. xinpheld (56 months ago | reply)

    "Fanny"? Butt? I sense a trend here.

  6. xinpheld (56 months ago | reply)

    If I had to guess, I'd say it was actually Butt's sister, by the wording.

  7. BobMeade (56 months ago | reply)

    Major Butt went down with the Titanic, so I'm adding a Titanic tag.

  8. BigBean (47 months ago | reply)

    Hi, this photo is being discussed in one of the projects in the Flickr Commons group, and we'd love to have this added to the group pool!

  9. Smurphy Pix (46 months ago | reply)

    Thank goodness she was Fanny Edwards and not Fanny Butt.

  10. supah (45 months ago | reply)

    that guy was a major ass!

  11. thetallguy747 (37 months ago | reply)

    By this point in his life, Taft was sitting on Major Butt.

  12. AlaricFaulkner (35 months ago | reply)

    The caption doesn't make sense as Frances Louise (Taft) Edwards, big Bill's only sister, had no children.

  13. tippootib (28 months ago | reply)

    The woman in the photo is actually Nellie Taft's sister, Lucy Laughlin. (Lucy's husband Thomas was the person who was cut out of the photograph, possibly because he later committed suicide.) The two children are the Laughlin children, and Captain Archie Butt was President Taft's military ADC who later lost his life on the Titanic.

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